Remnants of 'Jim Crow medicine'

10:16 PM,
Oct. 3, 2013

Written by

Bill Minor
| Contributing Columnist

While politicians in Washington argue over whether health care coverage will be extended to 30 million Americans, here in Mississippi many present day leaders have forgotten that thousands of black citizens for decades were denied even basic medical care.

At least one white physician - significantly not known for being a civil liberties activist - has not forgotten.

He is Dr. Richard "Rick" deShazo, of the Department of Medicine at University of Mississippi Medical Center who, thanks to Mississippi Public Broadcasting, has become something of the "people's doctor" celebrity, dishing ...